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fetor /fe·tor/ (fe´tor) stench, or offensive odor.
fetor hepa´ticus  the peculiar odor of the breath characteristic of hepatic disease.
fe·tor (ftr, -tôr)
n.
A very offensive odor.
fetor [fe´tor]
stench or offensive odor.
hepatic fetor (fetor hepa´ticus) the peculiar odor of the breath characteristic of hepatic disease.
fetor o´ris halitosis.
fetor
stench or offensive odor.
fetor oris
halitosis.
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An allegorical poem in which he mourns the loss of District Six begins with an explicit erotic memory: I never laid with a lover without swopping skins, sliding on the satin of her loins, breathing with her breath the foetor and the fragrances of the flesh, holding fast, as though I clasped to me my life, her slick body's twining length, motherly, sweet milkiness of her sweat, and all of her roundnesses slotting in the crying hollows of my heart.
Shedding skins: metaphors of race and sexuality in the writing of ... by Stobie, Cheryl / Journal of Literary Studies
With a whiff of foetor judaicus, this passage makes a strong correlation between Jew and excrement, pointing to the sewer as the place where a Jew can be found; perhaps he belongs there.
John Foxe and the Jews [*] by ACHINSTEIN, SHARON / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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